Ambassadors of Spain are government officials appointed by the Spanish monarch on the advice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to act as diplomatic representatives to foreign nations, international organizations, and as ambassadors-at-large. These appointments do not require any type of confirmation by the Cortes Generales, although the Constitution prevents the government and, therefore, its representatives, from entering into certain international agreements without its authorization.
Ambassadors report to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and, depending on the matter or geographical area, also answer to the Ministry's secretaries of state or directors-general. They do not have a fixed term of office, serving at the pleasure of the government. However, it is an unwritten custom that diplomats serve for at least four years.
According to the 2014 State Foreign Action and Service Act, article 44(4), "Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassadors, Permanent Representative Ambassadors, and Chargés d'Affaires shall be appointed from among officials of the Diplomatic Service in the manner determined by regulations, without prejudice to the Government, in the exercise of its discretionary power, being able to appoint as Ambassadors persons who do not belong to the Diplomatic Service". Thus, in Spain there are two types of ambassadors: career diplomats and political appointees. As of August 2024, there are only five "political" ambassadors.
Current ambassadors of Spain This list is made up based on information provided by a public list compiled by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation. Last update was made on April 22, 2026. Also, the work "History of the Spanish Diplomacy" by diplomat and historian Miguel Ángel Ochoa Brun is used for historical data (until 2000). The date of establishment is the date when the diplomatic relations were first established; it also shows, if there were previous relations, the year in which it was elevated to the rank of embassy.
+Host countryListAmbassadorAppointmentEmbassy and websiteEstablishedFrancisco Javier Puig SauraKabul1950Gabriel Cremades VenturaTirana1929Ramiro Fernández BachillerAlgiers1493Carlos Pérez-Desoy FagesAndorra la Vella1993Miguel Utray DelgadoLuanda1977The ambassador to JamaicaKingston1988Joaquín María de Arístegui LabordeBuenos Aires1848The ambassador to RussiaMoscow1992Esther Monterrubio VillarCanberra1967María Aurora Mejía ErrasquínVienna1802The ambassador to TurkeyAnkara1992The ambassador to JamaicaKingston1976The ambassador to KuwaitKuwait City1972Gabriel María Sistiaga Ochoa de ChinchetruDhaka1972The ambassador to Trinidad and TobagoPort of Spain1986The ambassador to RussiaMoscow1992José María Rodríguez CosoBrussels1843The ambassador to GuatemalaGuatemala City1989The ambassador to NigeriaAbuja1966The ambassador to IndiaNew Delhi2011Fernando García CasasLa Paz1847María Milagrosa Molina Álvarez de ToledoSarajevo1993The ambassador to NamibiaWindhoek1981Consuelo FemeníaBrasilia1834The ambassador to MalaysiaKuala Lumpur1984Miguel Alonso BerrioSofia1910The ambassador to MaliBamako1964The ambassador to TanzaniaDar es Salaam1969The ambassador to ThailandBangkok1964Juan Pedro Pérez-Gómez DelaunayYaoundé1961Alfredo Martínez SerranoOttawa1953Ana Paredes PrietoPraia1977The ambassador to CameroonYaoundé19641975Laura Oroz UlibarriSantiago de Chile1844Marta Betanzos RoigBeijing1575Santiago Jiménez MartínBogotá1881The ambassador to South AfricaPretoria1983María de los Ángeles García de LaraKinshasa1969The ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo1973The ambassador to New ZealandWellington1998Juan Ignacio Morro VillaciánSan José1850José Ramón García HernándezZagreb1992Francisco Javier Hergueta GarnicaHavana1902Mercedes Alonso FrayleNicosia1968María Pérez Sánchez-LaulhéPraga1919Salvador Rueda RabanalCopenhagen1516The ambassador to EthiopiaAddis Ababa1982The ambassador to JamaicaKingston1980Lorea Arribalzaga CeballosSanto Domingo1855 (Timor-Leste)The ambassador to IndonesiaYakarta2002Enrique Erik Yturriaga SaldanhaQuito1840Sergio Román Carranza FörsterCairo1893Sonia Isabel Álvarez CibanalSan Salvador1865Francisco Javier Conde y Martínez de IrujoMalabo1968The ambassador to SudanKhartoum1993Ángel María Vázquez Díaz de TuestaTallinn1921The ambassador to MozambiqueMaputo1979Guillermo Antonio López Mac-LellanAddis Ababa1951The ambassador to New ZealandWellington1977Manuel Montobbio de BalanzóHelsinki1918Victorio Redondo BaldrichParis1475Rafael Chaves BeardoLibreville1961The ambassador to SenegalDakar1965The ambassador to TurkeyAnkara1992Pascual Navarro RíosBerlin1871Ángel Lossada Torres-QuevedoAccra1968Jorge DomecqAthenas1834The ambassador to Trinidad and TobagoPort of Spain1986María Clara Girbau RondaGuatemala City1863Ángel Carrascal GutiérrezConakry1965Enrique Conde LeónBissau1975The ambassador to Trinidad and TobagoPort of Spain1986Marco Antonio Peñín ToledanoPort-au-Prince1860(Vatican City)Isabel CelaáVatican CityHomepage1480Guillermo Escribano ManzanoTegucigalpa1894Luis Ángel Redondo GómezBudapest1920The ambassador to NorwayOslo1949Juan Antonio March PujolNew Delhi1956Bernardo de Sicart EscodaYakarta1958Antonio Sánchez-Benedito GasparTehran1842Alicia Rico Pérez del PulgarBaghdad1946María Teresa Lizaranzu PerinatDublin1924Vacant since 11 March 2026; Francisca María Pedrós Carretero, chargé d'affaires a.i.Tel Aviv1986Miguel Ángel Fernández-PalaciosRome1865Guillermo Marín GorbeaAbidjan1967José María Fernández López de TurisoKingston1966Íñigo de Palacio EspañaTokyo1590José Luis Pardo CuerdoAmman1947Luis Francisco Martínez MontesAstana1992Jaime Alejandro Moreno BauNairobi1965The ambassador to New ZealandWellington2011Manuel Hernández GamalloKuwait City1964The ambassador to KazakhstanAstana1992The ambassador to ThailandBangkok1967Ricardo Díez-Hochleitner CousteauRiga1921Miguel María de Lucas GonzálezBeirut1860sThe ambassador to South AfricaPretoria1976The ambassador to Ivory CoastAbidjan1863Javier Soria QuintanaTripoli1784The ambassador to SwitzerlandBerna1991José Fernando Fernández-Aguayo MuñozVilnius1922María Nieves Blanco DíazLuxembourg1891The ambassador to South AfricaPretoria1966The ambassador to ZimbabweHarare1972Sergio Farré SalváKuala Lumpur1967The ambassador to IndiaNew Delhi1979Antonio Guillén HidalgoBamako1964Miriam Álvarez de la Rosa RodríguezValletta1969The ambassador to the Holy SeeVatican CityHomepage1483The ambassador to the PhilippinesManila1992Pablo Barbará GómezNouakchott1961The ambassador to South AfricaPretoria1979Juan Duarte CuadradoMexico City1836The ambassador to the PhilippinesManila1992The ambassador to the RomaniaBucarest1993The ambassador to FranceParis1876The ambassador to ChinaBeijing1977The ambassador to SerbiaBelgrade2006Enrique Ojeda VilaRabat1578Teresa Orjales VidalMaputo1977The ambassador to ThailandBangkok1967Francisco Javier Pagalday GastelurrutiaWindhoek1990The ambassador to AustraliaCanberra1995The ambassador to IndiaNew Delhi1968Cecilia Robles CartesThe Hague1649Luis Alfonso Sánchez-VelliscoWellington1969Vacant since 4 March 2026; Alejandro Robles Monsalve, chargé d'affaires a.i.Managua1850Gloria Mínguez RopiñónNiamey1965Félix Costales ArtiedaAbuja1961The ambassador to South KoreaSeoul2001Rafael Soriano OrtizSkopje1994Alejandra del Río NovoOslo1905Francisco Javier de Istúriz SimonetMuscat1972Carlos Aragón Gil de la SernaIslamabad1951The ambassador to the PhilippinesManila1997Spain recognized the State of Palestine in May 2024, however, no ambassador has been appointed yet.Moisés Morera MartínPanama City1880sThe ambassador to AustraliaCanberra1979Javier Parrondo BabarroAsunción1880Alejandro Abellán García de DiegoLimaHomepage1879Xavier Martí MartíManila1951Victoria Ortega Gutiérrez.Warsaw1519Juan Fernández TrigoLisbon1474Álvaro Renedo ZalbaDoha1973José Antonio Hernández Pérez-SolórzanoBucarest1881Ricardo Martínez VázquezMoscowHomepage1718The ambassador to TanzaniaDar es Salaam1967The ambassador to JamaicaKingston1987The ambassador to Trinidad and TobagoPort of Spain1986The ambassador to New ZealandWellington1980The ambassador to ItalyRomeHomepage1978The ambassador to GabonLibreville1982Javier María Carbajosa SánchezRiyadh1948María Dolores Ríos PesetDakar1961Ander Ruiz de Gopegui AramburuBelgrade1910The ambassador to EthiopiaAddis Ababa1978The ambassador to GuineaConakry1964Álvaro de la Riva Guzmán de FrutosSingapore1968Sofía Ruiz del Árbol MoroBratislava1993Javier Herrera García-CanturriLjubljana1992The ambassador to AustraliaCanberra1981The ambassador to KenyaNairobi1968José Manuel Pascual GarcíaPretoria1951Julio Herraiz EspañaSeoul1950The ambassador to SudanKhartoum2012The ambassador to IndiaNew Delhi1955Daniel Losada MillarKhartoum1963The ambassador to Trinidad and TobagoPort of Spain1976Luis Manuel Cuesta CivísStockholm1633Enrique Ignacio Mora BenaventeBerna1513Antonio González-Zavala PeñaDamascus1948Spain maintained relations with the Republic of China until 1973. Since then, diplomatic relations have been carried out by the Taipei Consular Section of the Consulate General in Manila.The ambassador to KazakhstanAstana1992Paloma Serra RoblesDar es Salaam1967Manuel Nuche BascónBangkok1870The ambassador to GhanaAccra1965The ambassador to New ZealandWellington1979María Cristina Pérez GutiérrezPort of Spain1967Isidro Antonio González AfonsoTunisia1475Cristina Latorre SanchoAnkara1782The ambassador to RussiaMoscow1992The ambassador to AustraliaCanberra1992The ambassador to KenyaNairobi1969Adela Díaz BernárdezKyiv1992Emilio Pin GodosAbu Dhabi1972Emma Aparici Vázquez de PargaLondonHomepage1494Ángeles Moreno BauWashington, D.C.Homepage1778Javier Salido OrtizMontevideo1845The ambassador to RussiaMoscow1992The ambassador to AustraliaCamberra1981Álvaro Albacete PereaCaracas1845Carmen Cano de LasalaHanoi1964Spain closed its embassy in Yemen in 2012, transferring its operations to the European Union delegation and, in 2015, it halted all operations indefinitely.1968María Lourdes Sangróniz GuerricagoitiaHarare19691980The Republic of Abkhazia is not recognized by the United Nations or by Spain.The Republic of Kosovo is not recognized by the United Nations or by Spain.The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is not recognized by the United Nations or by Spain.The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is not recognized by the United Nations or by Spain.The Republic of South Ossetia is not recognized by the United Nations or by Spain.
Ambassadors to international organizations
Ambassadors to the United Nations Host organizationListAmbassadorAppointmentRepresentation and websiteEstablishedHéctor Gómez HernándezNew York1956 (Deputy)Ana Jiménez de la HozNew York United Nations Office at GenevaMarcos Gómez MartínezGeneva1955 United Nations Office at Geneva (Deputy)Clara Cabrera Brasero United Nations Office at Geneva(Deputy - Disarmament)María Bassols Delgado United Nations Office at Geneva(Deputy - Trade)María Pilar Morán Reyero United Nations International Organizations at Rome(U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture)The ambassador to ItalyRome1951Miquel IcetaParis1954 United Nations Office at ViennaMaría Sebastián de EriceVienna1980 United Nations Office at NairobiThe ambassador to KenyaNairobi
Ambassadors to European organizations Host organizationListAmbassadorAppointmentRepresentation and websiteEstablishedMarcos Alonso AlonsoBrussels1960 (Deputy)Oriol Escalas Nolla1979 Political and Security CommitteeGuillermo Ardizone García2000Rosa Velázquez ÁlvarezStrasbourg1977
Other international organizations Current Spanish ambassadors to other international organizations: